Today’s lecture Ottoman History 1300-1700 Crash Course! Imperial project 1300-1600 -Territorial expansion -Centralization and its institutions -Ruling elite and the subjects -Transformation of cities Seventeenth Century 1600-1700 Sultans and political events
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Ottomans and their history
Map of Ottoman Expansion, 1300-1700
Capture of the Aydos Castle Artist unknown, Şahname-i Al-i Osman, (Book of Kings of the Ottoman Dynasty), dating from ca. 1550.
Map of Constantinople by Buondelmont dating from 1420s
Portrait of Mehmed II Gentile Bellini, dating from fifteenth century. Imperial Project of Mehmed II *Territorial expansion *Developments in the central administration and the sultan’s household) *Creation of a new capital *Developments in state’s relations with non-muslim communities Portrait of Mehmed II Gentile Bellini, dating from fifteenth century.
Review: Mehmed II and Constantinople Mehmed II and establishing Ottoman rule Anatolia - Komnenis in Trabzon - Karamanids in Konya - Akkoyunlus in eastern Anatolia and Iran Balkans -Serbian and Bosnian kingdoms -Albanian lords -Wallachia Black Sea -Kaffa and Azov from the Genoese -Khans of Crimea became Ottoman vassals Aegean -Genoese holdings -the Duchy of Athens -Venetians
Medal of Mehmet II, Bertoldo Di Giovanni, 1480s Inscribed (obverse): Mavmet Asie ac Trapesunzis Magne que Gretie Imperat. (Mehmed, emperor of Asia and Trebizond and Great Greece) Inscribed (reverse) Gretie/Trapesunty/Asie (Greece, Treibizond, Asia)
Topkapı Palace, view from the Bosphorus
A public council meeting at the second court Lokman, Hünername, (Book of Skills), dating from ca. 1587-88.
Recruitment of Children from Arifi, Süleymanname, (Book of Süleyman), dating ca. 1558
Ottoman Army I.Central army stationed in the capital *Janissaries (infantry) *Cavalry of the Porte II. Provincial Cavalry Timarlı sipahi Sultan Süleyman at the Battle of Mohacs (Hungary) Osman, Hünername, (Book of Skills), dating from second half of the 16th cent.
Map of Ottoman Expansion, 1300-1700
PEOPLE OF THE EMPIRE The military (askeri) All the ruling circles including the Sultan and his household, provincial administrators, religio-administrative cadre (ulema, sing. alim). Privileges including tax exemption The subjects (reaya) Peasants, town and city dwellers, and nomads. Both Muslim and non-Muslim.
THE RULERS AND THE RULED The military (askeri) All the ruling circles including the Sultan and his household, provincial administrators, religio-administrative cadre (ulema, sing. alim). Privileges including tax exemption The subjects (reaya) Peasants, town and city dwellers, and nomads. Both Muslim and non-Muslim.
Comparision of maps of Constantinople fifteenth (left) and sixteenth (right) centuries
Süleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul.
Review: plan of Süleyman’s complex (külliye) Mosque and mausoleums of Süleyman and Hürreö 4 general medreses 2 specialized medreses- one for the study of medicine, the other for the study of hadis a Koran school for the children a hospital a hospice (tabhane) a public kitchen (imarethane) a hammam rows of small shops
Sultan Ahmet mosque-complex
Ahmed I 1603-1617 Mustafa 1617-1618 Osman II 1618-1622 Mustafa 1622-1623 Murad IV 1623-1640 İbrahim 1640-1648 Mehmed IV 1648-1693
Today’s lecture Ottoman History 1300-1700 Crash Course! Imperial project 1300-1600 -Territorial expansion -Centralization and its institutions -Ruling elite and the subjects -Transformation of cities Seventeenth Century 1600-1700 Sultans and political events